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A Rome priest is fighting for his life after being stabbed in the neck and stomach by a deranged man who had just watched the film The Da Vinci Code... Eyewitnesses said that Marco Luzi, 25, asked to see Father Canio Canistri, 68, parish priest at the church of Santa Marcella in the San Saba district on the Aventine Hill, and then attacked him with a knife hidden in a cloth. An elderly parishioner who came to the priest's aid is also in serious condition. A Peruvian childminder and a policeman were also injured as the assailant fled through a...

A young man was stabbed in the chest while travelling through northern Ontario on a Winnipeg-bound Greyhound bus Sunday afternoon -- less than two hours after passengers say the attacker was put on board by members of the Ontario Provincial Police. The victim -- identified by witnesses as an Asian male in his mid-20s -- was rushed to hospital and is expected to survive. Police arrested the suspect near the town of White River, just moments after the driver allowed him to get off at the side of the highway. "We don't know why he was with the police or...

Amtrak Passenger Stabbed While Sleeping September 3, 2008 Amtrak Passenger Stabbed While Sleeping - Considering the recent beheading in Canada an a Greyhound bus, an attempted beheading on another bus, and this… I may consider alternatives to public transportation.A 24-year-old man was stabbed while sleeping on an Amtrak train just south of the Oregon state line.The suspect, Armando Avalos, jumped from the train and suffered a broken ankle, authorities said. Avalos, 48, of Oxnard, Calif., was arrested Saturday on charges of attempted murder, parole violation and manufacture and possession of a dangerous weapon.He was being held without bail Tuesday...

SAN FRANCISCO -- An immigrant suspected of being in the United States illegally - freed after being shielded from possible deportation by San Francisco officials despite committing two gang-related assaults as a juvenile - faces charges that he tried to stab a man to death last year in San Mateo County, authorities say. The case of Eric Antonio Uc-Cahun, now 19, a native of Mexico, is the second in which a youthful offender protected from deportation in San Francisco has later been arrested for a violent crime as an adult. The San Mateo County stabbing was especially vicious, authorities said...

A man suffering burns to his hands and face handed himself into police today over the brutal double killing of French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez. The 33-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder after walking into a police station in South London not far from the murder scene at about 2am. He was seen by a police doctor and transferred to hospital for treatment to his injuries. Scotland Yard confirmed he was being treated for burns but refused to discuss the nature of them. Mr Bonomo and Mr Ferez's badly burnt bodies were found inside Mr Bonomo's rented...

Police baffled by horrific end of Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez Students were bound, gagged and stabbed more than 200 times but the motive for attack is a mystery Adam Fresco, Fran Yeoman and Marcus Leroux As two talented biochemistry students and close friends, Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez had come to London to develop their skills as specialists in infectious disease and environmental engineering. Instead the two became the victims of an attack that, even by the standards of a city battling against the blight of knife crime, is among the most horrific in living memory. The bodies of...

An 18-year-old male was ordered held in custody on Monday for at least four weeks, after he stabbed and killed a 17-year-old friend on a playground in suburban Bærum Sunday afternoon. Shocked witnesses included small children. The stabbing shocked witnesses on Sunday. The stabbing victim was just 17 years old. Watan Faramarzi, age 17, died from a single stab wound in the chest. The stabbing occurred after the two friends reportedly had quarreled at a party the night before. They agreed to meet on the playground in a housing complex in Rykkinn, to settle their differences. The meeting ended with...

Boy, 14, fights for life after being stabbed in football game row by sword wielding youths wearing niqabs   By Charlotte Gill Last updated at 4:34 PM on 18th June 2008  Two youths were seen wearing niqab-style face masks and wielding a sword after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed, locals have claimed.One was heard to say 'I'm going to kill him' as the pair walked calmly down a residential street chatting at about midday yesterday.The schoolboy was knifed in the chest just yards away at 5pm on Tuesday.He collapsed in a pool of blood in front of drinkers outside...

Excerpt - TOKYO, June 8 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: UPDATING WITH RISE IN DEATH TOLL) Seven people died and 11 others were injured after a man hit pedestrians with a truck and then stabbed people Sunday in broad daylight on a street in Tokyo's busy Akihabara district, a popular electronics area and a magnet for comic and animation fans. Police arrested the man, 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato from Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, and seized a survival knife he was carrying. He admitted to stabbing all the people with the knife from around 12:30 p.m., the police said. The truck was rented in Shizuoka...

TOKYO (Reuters) - As many as five people might have died and at least 10 more were wounded after a man went on a knife rampage through Tokyo's popular electronics district on Sunday, a fire department official said. The man, identified as a 25-year-old member of one of Japan's yakuza crime syndicates, began shouting and stabbing passers-by in the Akihabara area, NHK television reported, showing footage of several ambulances stopped in the district's crowded streets. At least 15 people were stabbed and as many as five might have died, an official for the Tokyo Fire Department said. Local media reported...

AMMAN (AFP) — A German tourist was stabbed on Friday in central Amman and hospitalised but in stable condition, Jordanian police said, as a minister ruled out terrorist motives. "A German tourist was stabbed today in the city centre near Al-Husseini mosque and was rushed to hospital," police Major Mohammed Khatib said. "The tourist underwent surgery and is now in a stable condition." A security source, who declined to be named, told AFP the victim, a 63-year-old whose name was being verified, had been stabbed with a knife. A policeman patrolling the area immediately arrested the attacker, Khatib said, adding...

A woman in Westchester County is facing charges that she stabbed a man who said she was ugly. Kyeisha (Ky-EE-shuh) Fuller of Yonkers was awaiting arraignment Wednesday on charges of assault and weapon possession. Yonkers Police Lt. Sean Mullins said Fuller, who's 23, argued on Tuesday with a guest of her roommate, and it turned violent after the "ugly" remark. She allegedly used a kitchen knife to stab him in the shoulder. (edit) APKyeisha Fuller

The day James Anthony Williams allegedly stabbed to death a stranger on Capitol Hill, the homeless, mentally ill ex-convict showed up at his probation officer's office agitated, defensive and, the officer wrote, "barely able to hold himself together." Despite intense concerns about Williams' paranoid schizophrenia and violent behavior, the probation officer gave Williams a pair of Metro bus tickets and told him to come back in three days.

<p>LYING in a pool of his own blood, a Gold Coast doctor sobbed that he had lost his baby daughter after a fight over her conversion from Islam to Christianity, a court has been told.</p> <p>Yesterday saw the reopening of a committal hearing against Kaihana Tahseen Hussain, 18, who stands accused of murdering her mother and stabbing her father at their Southport unit just days after they moved to the Gold Coast in October 2006.</p>

An Oklahoma man was arrested after police say he stabbed another man in the neck with a pork chop bone during a food fight. Police in Ardmore, Oklahoma responded to call of a fight outside a local business New Year's day. When they arrived, they found the victim covered in blood with a puncture wound to his neck.

A Spartanburg mother is accused of stabbing her son several times Christmas morning, but her son is the person facing charges. City police say it appears the mother, 45-year-old Tammy Jones, stabbed her son because he urinated on her while she slept in her bed. 21-year-old Michael Anthony Carson, nicknamed Pooh Bear, is charged with aggravated assault and battery. Police arrested him at his mother's home on Wednesday. City police say Jones stabbed her son six times with a butcher knife. He suffered wounds to his shoulder, calf, and chest. Witnesses in the house heard Jones say "why did you...

ROCKLAND— An illegal alien from Brazil who allegedly stabbed his roommate, then choked a police dog while fleeing in the woods, was ordered held without bail on Wednesday. Julian Teixeira Demoura, 42, of 808 Market St., was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with attempted murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, defacing property, two counts of mistreating a police dog, cruelty to an animal, resisting arrest, giving a false name to a police officer and domestic assault and battery. He pleaded innocent to the charges in Hingham District Court and will be held without bail until a dangerousness hearing...

A FRUIT-picking trip to southern New South Wales ended in the death of a Scottish backpacker who became embroiled in a bizarre row about creationism and evolution. English backpacker Alexander Christian York, 33, was today sentenced to a maximum of five years jail for the manslaughter of Scotsman Rudi Boa in January last year. Mr Boa, 28, died on January 27 after being stabbed by York at the Blowering Holiday Park, near Tumut. Mr Boa and his girlfriend Gillian Brown arrived in Australia from Scotland at the end of 2005 and went to Tumut to pick fruit as their first...

A Somalian woman who entered the United States about 18 months ago as a refugee was charged yesterday in Quincy District Court with trying to stab her boyfriend to death as he drove a tractor-trailer along Route 128 south in Randolph Thursday night. The victim, Mustafa Warsame, 38, brought the truck to a stop in the breakdown lane, hitting the guardrail. He staggered out and told a witness, "My girlfriend stabbed me," before collapsing on the pavement. A prosecutor said the defendant, Deka Artan, 21, ran from the scene with her 2-year-old daughter, but stopped a short distance later.

Police investigating the stabbing of Rabbi Zalman Gurevitch, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Frankfurt, arrested a German man of Afghan descent, the Associated Press reported over the weekend. The 22-year-old Frankfurt resident was arrested Thursday night following tips from users of an online bulletin board. The suspect apparently described in detail the events surrounding the Sept. 7 attack on Gurevitch, who was walking home from synagogue services when an Arab-looking youth allegedly stabbed him, shouting, "I'm going to kill you." Many high-profile German politicians and Jewish community leaders visited Gurevitch in the hospital last week. He remained there over Rosh Hashanah...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A 40-year-old Denny's waitress was fatally stabbed in the neck and chest in front of dozens of customers and children at the tourist-filled International Drive restaurant, according to police. Witnesses said the victim was met by her boyfriend Alejandro Casa, 47, Sunday night in the lobby area of the restaurant located at 7660 International Drive and Sand Lake Road. Casa approached her and then repeatedly stabbed her with a steak knife before being chased out of the restaurant by other employees, according to witnesses. Casa dropped the knife and lost a shoe as he fled the scene,...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - A lawyer who stabbed his neighbor to death because he thought the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter. “It’s a Shakespearean tragedy brought into the real world,” Judge Richard Comerford said at the sentencing. “Something was set into motion in this man’s mind — real or perceived. It was very real to him.” Jonathon Edington, 29, attacked neighbor Barry James in the man’s bedroom last year after his wife told him she thought James had molested their daughter. Officers said they found Edington washing the victim’s...

The US embassy's defence attache in Cyprus was found dead on Monday on a hilltop in a remote part of the Mediterranean island after apparently stabbing himself in the neck, officials said. Thomas Mooney "died as a result of haemorrhaging after the infliction of an injury to the neck," an official involved in the post-mortem told AFP on condition of anonymity. "The injury was compatible with self-infliction. There was no evidence of foul play whatsover," the official said, adding that the wound was caused by a sharp instrument and that the body was in a state of decomposition.

Oregon child killer Ward Weaver stabbed during haircut Posted by The Associated Press May 08, 2007 06:18AM Categories: Breaking News Ward Weaver ONTARIO -- Convicted child killer Ward Weaver survived a stabbing by an inmate barber at the Snake River Correctional Institution, authorities said. Weaver, 44, is serving two life sentences at the Eastern Oregon prison. He pleaded guilty in 2004 to killing two Oregon City girls whose bodies were found in 2002 at his home -- one under a concrete slab and the other in a bag in a storage shed. The barber, Marvin Lee Taylor, 44, was charged...

INDIANAPOLIS — A man accused of stabbing his 11-month-old son in the back with a kitchen knife, then throwing the boy out a car window, was caught Friday and will face attempted murder charges. Kevin Chandler, 30, was captured about 10:45 a.m. in a Lawrence home, an Indianapolis suburb, by police acting on an anonymous tip from a woman. Officers met no resistance when they arrived to arrest him, said Sgt. Dale Horstman of the Speedway Police Department. Speedway Police have charged Chandler with attempted murder and aggravated battery in the attack on his son, Devon Chandler. Chandler was taken...

(CBS4) COCONUT CREEK Investigators say Kevin Mair, 25, of Plantation walked into his classroom Friday morning at Atlantic Technical Center in Coconut Creek using a cane and wearing the types of headphones used in a gun range. Surveillance tape was released by the police showing the suspect approaching one person and that person doubling over. They say he became agitated and displeased about the lack of black history courses being taught. (February is Black History Month.) The teacher asked Mair to leave and called for staff assistance. Broward school spokesman, Keith Bromery, said the student – who is an adult...

Asperger’s syndrome has been used as a defense with some success in cases of violence, experts say, suggesting it may arise when the fatal stabbing of a student at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School eventually goes to court. During an arraignment Friday in the death of 15-year-old James F. Alenson, the attorney for 16-year-old John Odgren said his client has Asperger’s, a mild form of autism that has helped win acquittals for defendants in 22 U.S. criminal cases since 2002, according to the Autism Society of America. The neurological disorder is characterized by average or above-average intelligence but difficulty developing social...

CHINO - Dozens of inmates were injured, one of them seriously, during a riot Saturday morning at California Institution for Men in Chino. Prison officers at about 9:25 a.m. confronted inmates involved in a melee at Reception Center-West, a medium security portion of the prison, according to a prison official. The inmates in the massive fight were from four modules, which each house approximately 200 inmates. The cause of the fight is still under investigation, but Lt. Mark Hargrove, a prison spokesman, said he believed "two inmates began fighting and it just flashed up from there." Prison officers used pepper...

How can anyone be a bystander while someone is stabbed? By Mark Steyn (Filed: 13/09/2003) On September 11, 2001, the first individual to be named among the dead was the wife of the US Solicitor-General, Barbara Olson, whom I'd sat next to at dinner a couple of months earlier. On September 11, 2003, I woke to the news of the death of the Swedish foreign minister, Anna Lindh, whom I also sat next to a couple of months ago, at a conference. I can't claim anything other than the most casual acquaintance with either lady, but even an accidental proximity...

On the evening of September 11th, Rosemary Righter, the senior leader writer (“leader” is British for “editorial”) at The Times of London, was due at a dinner party. She arrived late, and found the tone, after a hard day at the office, oddly smug and triumphalist. Leaving early, she gave a lift to another guest. “Rosemary,” he said, “isn’t it marvelous to think that the arrogant bloody Americans have finally got it in the neck?” Involuntarily, she braked. Hard. Though not hard enough to precipitate him through the windshield, sadly. Miss Righter was one of the first to experience an admittedly...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A bloody brawl erupted outside a tavern after one customer thought another failed to wash his hands after using the bathroom, police said. One man was hospitalized with stab wounds. Another was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. According to a police report, the fight broke out Thursday after Eric Jennings Kisiah, 27, became upset about a customer's apparent hygiene failure at the Tumbleweeds Sports Bar. Witnesses told police Kisiah confronted the customer and two of his friends, calling them names, telling them they were dirty and threatening to "slash their throats."...

15 year old student was stabbed at his High School, in Orlando, FL. School being evacuated after attack. Suspect is Juvenile in custody.

Fremont police have not made any arrests in the incident but did detain and question three students who witnessed the fight, according to police. The victims stumbled into the school's main office moments after the 9:45 a.m. stabbing, prompting administrators to call police and paramedics and lock down the school, Police Sgt. Jeff Swadner said. The 16-year-old victim was undergoing surgery this afternoon for a wound to the stomach, he said, and the second victim, a 14-year-old, was being treated for a "superficial" stab to the arm. Investigators believe the fight to be gang related, and may be connected to...

Girls gone wilding BY VERONIKA BELENKAYA, PETER KADUSHIN, AUSTIN FENNER and CARRIE MELAGO, DAILY NEWS WRITERS Saturday, August 19th, 2006 A gang of petite but ornery lesbians pummeled and stabbed a DVD bootlegger in the West Village early yesterday after he tried to pick up one of the women - and then spat on her when she rebuffed his advances, police and witnesses said. Wayne Buckle, 28, was jumped by the women at 2 a.m. in front of the IFC movie theater on Sixth Ave. after allegedly cursing a 19-year-old gay woman because she rejected him. "She's my girl, and...

A 27-year-old man was stabbed to death while beating his ex-girlfriend and her daughter in the garage of their Mira Mesa home, police said Monday. Officers responding to calls of a disturbance in the 10500 block of Darwell Court shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday found George Dixon with stab wounds on the garage floor, San Diego police said. Dixon was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:18 p.m., according to SDPD Lt. Jeff Sferra. An investigation found that just prior to the slaying, Dixon got into a physical fight with his ex-girlfriend, Sferra said. When the...

Justin Murchison had a matter-of-fact answer Friday when asked what would have happened had a Good Samaritan with a gun not put a stop to a stabbing rampage at a Cordova Schnucks: "I'd be dead." A knife-wielding employee of the grocery store at 9025 U.S. 64 stabbed seven co-workers Friday morning before the armed civilian apprehended him in the parking lot. Another person was accosted with a knife, and yet another was stricken with heat-related symptoms. Late Friday, all the victims were alive. The attacker, identified as 21-year-old Elartrice 'Marcell' Ingram, is in police custody. He is charged with nine...

Usually stabbing victims take the fact that they've been stabbed pretty seriously. But when Morgan Hill resident Enrique Hernandez was stabbed in the hip with a sharp kitchen knife late Sunday, he left the knife in his leg and strolled on home -- three blocks from the scene of the crime. When he got home, he pulled the knife out, wrapped it in a T-shirt and washed up a bit. Then he went out drinking and dancing at the Pato Loco Bar in San Martin. It wasn't until another patron, increasingly alarmed by the blood stains on Hernandez's pants, contacted...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Escambia County officials have charged a jail inmate with inciting a fight between two women he had dated, one of whom died during the dispute. Authorities say 19-year-old Lavon Mars was recorded telling his girlfriend to beat an ex-girlfriend, who was pregnant with his child. According to investigators, Mars' former girlfriend had accused him of domestic violence. While on the phone with Mars, 19-year-old Latodra Dees attacked 18-year-old Tia Richardson in Richardson's living room. Richardson killed Dees while defending herself with a seven-inch steak knife.

RAYMOND, Ohio -- A man who was growing impatient about the cake-cutting at a wedding reception allegedly stabbed the bride's father and brother Saturday afternoon. Eric D. Adams was taken into custody without incident after the stabbing at the Liberty Township Community Center, according to the Union County Sheriff's Office. Rick Diamond Sr., 45, and Rick Diamond Jr., 18, were in serious but stable condition at The Ohio State University Medical Center, NBC 4's Erin Tate reported. "It was beautiful until something happened in the parking lot, and my dad and my brother got stabbed four or five times each,"...

A knife-wielding psycho who stabbed a pregnant woman and her boyfriend on a crowded Manhattan subway train last night because she had gotten into a "staring contest" with him later sported a huge grin as cops hauled him off to jail.... Investigators said the 23-year-old woman and Murphy first exchanged stares, then words. Murphy barked, "What are you looking at!" then got up and started punching her in the head, police said. When the woman's boyfriend, 22, got up to defend her, Murphy pulled out a black-handled knife and stabbed her in the left shoulder, police said. Murphy then turned...

Benton Harbor, MI - A Benton Harbor father is charged with murdering his own daughter. Friends say there had been on-going friction between 60-year-old Albert Ellington and his 12-year-old daughter, Albertnisha for some time. Sunday night, an apparent argument ended with Albertnisha being stabbed to death. Shocking tragedy Albert Ellington just got custody of his two pre-teen daughters late last year. Friends say the meek, mild-mannered man apparently snapped after, what they say, was physical and mental abuse by his daughter. As Albert was arraigned for killing his 12-year-old daughter, those who knew of the situation inside their Hurd Street...

ITHACA—A contributor to Cornell University’s “premier liberal voice” has been charged with stabbing a black student on the university’s campus after using “racial epithets” toward him.According to the Cornell Daily Sun, Nathan Poffenbarger [Class of] '08, a regular contributor to the campus magazine, “Turn Left” was charged with second-degree assault, a class "D" felony, after allegedly stabbing a visiting student on West Campus during an altercation on Saturday (February 18).Police said the attack stemmed from a racial incident.“Witnesses told police Poffenbarger was yelling racial remarks at someone else, when the victim, a black male student, stepped in to stop him....

Police target rogue lawyers after bid to murder Law Society official The Scotsman news.scotsman.com Thu 26 Jan 2006 MICHAEL HOWIE POLICE investigating the attempted murder of a senior legal official have drawn up a list of aggrieved clients and rogue lawyers amid a growing belief that his work holds the key to the vicious knife attack. Leslie Cumming, 53, the chief accountant with the Law Society of Scotland, was repeatedly stabbed outside his Edinburgh home at around 5pm on Monday. The assailant, who was wearing a black balaclava, pounced on Mr Cumming as he locked his garage door in...

Evening prayers at the synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya St. in Moscow ended in bloodshed yesterday. According to investigators from the city prosecutor's office and the victims themselves, 20-year-old attacker Alexander Koptsev acted with nationalistic motivation. From talking to his parents, however, it can be concluded that the frail and mentally ill young man was little interested in politics or religion. Alexander Koptsev, father of the unemployed 20-year-old of the same name, works as a chauffer. He said that his son was home the first half of the day on Wednesday playing Postal, a computer game in which a mailman unexpectedly...

New York, New York (AHN) - Three people were stabbed Wednesday at a party celebrating a new record featuring murdered rapper Notorious B.I.G.About 3:10 a.m., police officers heard gunfire at a parking garage close to the club. They found three men inside with gunshot wounds. They are in stable condition at the hospital.A short time later, a 911 call was made about a stabbing at a Manhattan club called Exit. Police found two men who were cut in the face and one who was stabbed in the stomach. They were all hospitalized.Detectives are unclear whether the two incidents are connected....

TAMARAC, Fla. - A Walgreens employee allegedly stabbed a co-worker in an argument over who could microwave her soup first, authorities said. Both women wanted to use the microwave in the employee break room Wednesday afternoon, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office. While they were fighting over who could use the microwave first, Mellesia Grant grabbed a large kitchen knife off the counter and stabbed Merloze Tilme in the abdomen, the sheriff's office said. "They didn't get along to begin with. Who could use the microwave first became a major issue," Broward County Sheriff's Office spokesman Jim Leljedal said....

A model who described herself as the "happiest girl in the world" was stabbed to death on her doorstep as she returned from a night out. A neighbour found the semi-naked body of Sally Anne Bowman on her path early on Sunday morning. A post mortem examination found she had died from multiple stab wounds. Miss Bowman, who celebrated her 18th birthday two weeks ago, was one of the leading models for an agency in Croydon, south London. Vasco Rodrigues of Pulse Model Management said she had done four catwalk shows for designers in central London, including one at the...

A mother and two of her children were found stabbed to death on Wednesday after police were called to their apartment by her injured son, who survived a stabbing rampage that took place at least a day earlier, authorities said. Authorities said they had no suspects, but Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said the stabbings appeared to stem from a family dispute over money. He said authorities wanted to speak with an uncle of the children, but that no arrest warrants had been issued and the person was not considered a suspect. Only one person is believed responsible for the...

Dereck Young, 46, was charged with one count of assault with intent to murder, one count of assault with intent to commit great bodily harm and one count of felonious assault, according to Local 4 reports. Young is accused of stabbing an Ohio teen who was among several people from all over the country on a pilgrimage at the Islamic Association of Michigan on Racho Road, north of Sibley Road. The 15-year-old was apparently upset when Young beat him in a game of basketball outside the mosque on Sunday night. Police said Young told officers that the teen spent Monday...

A St. Louis man who chased after a burglar he found inside his home was seriously beaten after three construction workers intervened. Homeowner Hamdija Halilovic, 46, caught the burglar breaking into his home in the 7000 block of Morganford Road shortly before 11 a.m. He grabbed a kitchen knife and chased after Daniel Ferguson, 35, of the 3100 block of North 11th Street, police said. Police would not release Halilovic's name, but a hospital worker confirmed it. Witnesses said Halilovic chased Ferguson through an alley behind his home and into Quincy Street. Halilovic stood over him and stabbed him several...